WAR and JUSTICE: A 25 Year Look at the Inside of the International Criminal Court at The Hague

Ladies and gentlemen, The documentary WAR AND JUSTICE tells the 25-year history of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its mission to end the most serious crimes against humanity. But can war crimes in war be prevented at all? Or is Ben Ferencz, former prosecutor of the Nureberg Trials, right when he says that the greatest war crime is war itself?

The film focuses on the Argentinian Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who was appointed the ICC's first Chief Prosecutor in 2003, and Karim Khan, the current Chief Prosecutor.

On February 24, 2022, Russia invades Ukraine, a short time later the ICC issues an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes. Fast forward, on October 7, 2023, Hamas commits a cruel massacre of Israeli civilians. Israel responds with the largest offensive on Gaza ever. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan travels to the Middle East and announces that he will prosecute any kind of war crimes, on both sides.

Directors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile follow Luis Moreno Ocampo around the world as he enlists the support of Oscar winner and UN Ambassador Angelina Jolie and joins forces with Ferencz and Khan to fight wars in Congo, Libya, Palestine and Ukraine.

In the course of the film, a complex legal process is given a face and the viewer understands why wars of aggression can hardly be brought to justice when the major world powers - China, Russia, India and the United States - are still unwilling to recognize the ICC as a global court?

Sadly, just as the film is about to debut, Ferencz dies at the age of 103. But Ocampo and Khan fight on in his honor, more determined than ever to put an end to all wars of aggression. Because war begets revenge; justice does not.

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